Monika's Vocabulary Dictionary.
Apostrophe is when an absent person, an abstract concept, or an important object is directly addressed.
Synesthesia; a neurologically based phenomenon, in which stimulation of one sensory or sognitive pathway leads to an automatic, involunteerric exsperience in a second sensory.
Hyperbole; a figure of speach in which statements are exageratted.
Understatement; a form of speach in which a lesser exspression would used then what would be exspected.
Allusion; references a well know place or person, event, literary work, or work of art.
Metaphor; language that directly compares seemingly unrelated subjects.
Simile; compares things using like or as.
Impled Metaphor; a more subtle way of compareing things.
Analogy; transferring information from a particular subject to another subject. the argument of one figure against another. Litotes; when the speaker, instead of making a certain claim, claims it's opposite.
Metenymy; use of a word for a concept with which the orginal concept behind this word is associated.
Synecdoche; a figure of speach that
-denotes a part of something on reference to the whole thing.
-denotes a thing as reference to it
-denotes a class of something as in reference to the general class
-denotes a general class in reference to a more specific class.
-denotes a material in reference to the object from which that material is made.
Paradox; an apparently true statement or group of true statements that lead to a contradiction or a situation that defies intuition.
oxymoron; combines two normally contradicting things.
Apostrophe is when an absent person, an abstract concept, or an important object is directly addressed.
Synesthesia; a neurologically based phenomenon, in which stimulation of one sensory or sognitive pathway leads to an automatic, involunteerric exsperience in a second sensory.
Hyperbole; a figure of speach in which statements are exageratted.
Understatement; a form of speach in which a lesser exspression would used then what would be exspected.
Allusion; references a well know place or person, event, literary work, or work of art.
Metaphor; language that directly compares seemingly unrelated subjects.
Simile; compares things using like or as.
Impled Metaphor; a more subtle way of compareing things.
Analogy; transferring information from a particular subject to another subject. the argument of one figure against another.
Litotes; when the speaker, instead of making a certain claim, claims it's opposite.
Metenymy; use of a word for a concept with which the orginal concept behind this word is associated.
Synecdoche; a figure of speach that
-denotes a part of something on reference to the whole thing.
-denotes a thing as reference to it
-denotes a class of something as in reference to the general class
-denotes a general class in reference to a more specific class.
-denotes a material in reference to the object from which that material is made.
Paradox; an apparently true statement or group of true statements that lead to a contradiction or a situation that defies intuition.
oxymoron; combines two normally contradicting things.